So I'm in the campus convenience store today and I spot a new variety of Pepsi, Holiday Spice. A limited edition spiced cola for the holidays, just arrived today. Its fucking two days after Hallowe'en and already the Christmas shit is on the shelves. But anyways, I was intrigued by this new product and purchased it. Not quite sure if I like it yet. Tastes like generic brand colas I've had. I'll never understand why the beverage companies release special limited edition varieties of soft drinks and what not and then take them away. What happened to Pepsi Blue, eh? EH? I really liked that stuff and now its gone. Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
It's all about the money. If a product sells, it stays. If it doesn't, it goes. Try buying the same groceries at the same supermarket every week for a few months; half the items on your list disappear.
(At least, that's what they tought me in Economics, but, you know, managers.)
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
Pepsi has seemed to keep the 57 varieties of Mountain Dew on the shelves for quite a while.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
I haven't actually seen Code Red for a while. And I never saw that special variety for the summer, either.
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
Code Red is popular enough around here (Mich), that it even gets it own slot in most all Pepsi machines I have seen, and is an option on tap at places such as Taco Bell. I don't mind Code Red but its almost too sweet for my liking.
Live Wire seemed to be advertised more as a limited time variety when that first came out well over a year ago and its still around, though not as popular as Code Red. I've never actually had Live Wire.
The new one is Pitch Black (Grape) that came out here 2 or 3 months ago, and I actually like quite a bit.
Overall, I am still partial to the original....
So what is the spiced pepsi supposed to taste like?
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
It says "cola spiced up for the season" and has hints of cinammon and nutmeg.
This new variety of MD sounds interesting, but I haven't seen it around yet.
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
Live Wire is my drug of choice - I stocked up before they pulled it last month... Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I developed a taste for Code Red while in the US. Is it available anywhere else? Noo. . .
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
We'll all pool together and mail you a 2 liter bottle of it.
They pulled Live Wire? Hmm...I wasn't aware of that.
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
quote:Originally posted by Charles Capps: Live Wire is my drug of choice - I stocked up before they pulled it last month...
I saw a bunch of it at Wallymart today....
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
Oooooo.
Yeah, it's a "summer only" thing.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
You're all very well trained Consumers. Well done!
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Hmm, I wonder if I can list Code Red on my Amazon wish-list. . ? 'Course, I'd actually have to have an Amazon wish-list, maybe I'll get one after Christmas when it emerges my brother didn't buy me Babylon 5 season 3 (as he's promised since he missed my birthday) but instead got me a CD. Or rather a cassette as whenever I asked for a CD he'd get me a tape instead. I have to tell him what I want for Christmas, otherwise he'd probably assume I don't want anything at all.
Where were we? So, yeah. Would USPS allow Code Red to be sent in the post?
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
Yeah, but there is no guarantee that it wouldn't go off like the Fat Boy when you break the seal...
...which suddenly reminds me of that milk commercials I saw once, you know the one...
...oh, that and the destruction of Nagasaki.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
We've had christmas shit up since last month. Meamwhile, many church leaders tried to ban Halloween this year because it fell on a Sunday and was "the Devil's day"....
Sickening.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Ban Halloween? Yeesh. All they do around here is make the kiddies go out on Saturday. In a few communities, anyways.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Hallowe'en in NZ was strange. Still daylight around 6pm, which was when all the little tots came round, shepherded by adults. Since we neglected to buy any sweets we stayed indoors with the curtains drawn so they'd think we were out. We had a few Chupa-chups lollies so did give them to a select few if we liked their costumes. Halloscre'en-ing we called it.
In the UK these days the older kids just use it as an excuse to vandalise people's houses. We were expecting the same here, but no. Just a nice neighbourhood we live in I guess (the former 'P' den two doors down notwithstanding). That, or not many Maori living nearby. . .
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
I like how we're talking about soda flavors.
Halloween rocks.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Mine sure did: I worked 16 hours of overtime while listening to only good music online and had almost no annoying customers (none that stuck in my memory at least).
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...the former 'P' den two doors down notwithstanding..."
Okay, forgive my ignorance, but, "P"?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Hmm, I wonder if I can list Code Red on my Amazon wish-list. . ? 'Course, I'd actually have to have an Amazon wish-list, maybe I'll get one after Christmas when it emerges my brother didn't buy me Babylon 5 season 3 (as he's promised since he missed my birthday) but instead got me a CD. Or rather a cassette as whenever I asked for a CD he'd get me a tape instead. I have to tell him what I want for Christmas, otherwise he'd probably assume I don't want anything at all.
Where were we? So, yeah. Would USPS allow Code Red to be sent in the post?
A tape!?! What year is your brother stuck in!?! 1989? Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Lee And Rhymes:
quote:Just a nice neighbourhood we live in I guess (the former 'P' den two doors down notwithstanding). That, or not many Maori living nearby. . .
"So, Father Ted, I hear you're a racist now. Was it sanctioned by Rome, or is it a local decision?"
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
P is some sort of crystal meth I gather. Granted the tape-instead-of-CD was a while ago, but throughout the 1990s whever I asked for a CD I'd get the cassette instead. Eventually I stopped asking for CDs. . .
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
You actually still have a tape player? I sometimes keep money in my stereo's twin cassette players: they've never been used to play tapes (and the stereo's six years old).
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
I bake cup cakes in mine.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
No, I don't have a tape player anymore. Well, actually I do - there's on ine our mini-system back in storage in the UK, and we bought a radio-cassette player here in NZ. . . But we have no tapes. We have an iPod with an iTrip.
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